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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.59.pr

Payment to an Adiectus and Recovery of Undue Payment

Passage 7714 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the validity of payment to an added person (adiectus) in cases of a constituent promise or a stipulation with a son in power, and the recovery against the stipulator if an undue payment is made to the added person.

[PAULUS libro secundo ad Plautium. ] §46.3.59.prSi ita stipulatus sim: 'mihi aut Titio dare spondes?' et debitor constituerit se mihi soluturum, quamuis mihi competat de constituta actio, potest adhuc adiecto soluere.
[PAULUS, in his second book on Plautius.] If I have stipulated thus: 'Do you promise to give to me or to Titius?' and the debtor has promised to pay me, although an action on the constituent promise lies for me, he can still pay the added person.
et si a filio familias mihi aut Titio stipulatus sim, patrem posse Titio soluere quod in peculio est, scilicet si suo, non filii nomine soluere uelit: dum enim adiecto soluitur, mihi solui uidetur: et ideo si indebitum adiecto solutum est, stipulatori posse condici Iulianus putat: ut nihil intersit, iubeam te Titio soluere an ab initio stipulatio ita concepta sit.
And if I have stipulated from a son in power for myself or Titius, the father can pay to Titius what is in the peculium, provided, of course, that he wishes to pay in his own name, not in the name of the son; for when payment is made to the added person, it is deemed to be paid to me. And therefore, if an undue payment has been made to the added person, Julian thinks that a recovery can be brought against the stipulator, so that it makes no difference whether I order you to pay Titius or whether the stipulation was so formulated from the beginning.

Notes

  1. §46.3.59.pradiecto — A nominal use referring to the 'person added for the purpose of payment' (adiectus solutionis causa). It is in the dative case, functioning as the object of the verb soluere.
  2. §46.3.59.prstipulatori posse condici — stipulatori (the stipulator) is the dative object of the passive infinitive condici (to be sued for recovery). In juristic Latin, since condicere alicui means 'to bring an action for recovery against someone', the dative case stipulatori is retained even in the passive construction.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.59.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.59.pr

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